Rockstar Games is a major video game developer and publisher based in New York City, owned by Take two interactive . The brand is mostly known for Grand Theft Auto, Max Payne, L.A. Noire, The Warriors, Bully, Manhunt, Midnight Club and Red Dead series and the use of open world, free roaming settings in their games. It comprises studios that have been acquired and renamed as well as others that have been created internally. While many of the studios Take-Two Interactive has acquired have been merged into the Rockstar brand, several other recent ones have retained their previous identities and have become part of the company's 2K Games division. The Rockstar Games label was founded in New York City in 1998by the English video game producersSam Houser, Dan Houser, Terry Donovan, Jamie King and Gary Foreman.

IMAX is a motion picture format and a set of proprietary cinema projection standards created by the Canadian company IMAX Corporation. IMAX has the capacity to record and display images of far greater size and resolution than conventional film systems. Since 2002, some feature films have been upconverted into IMAX format for display in IMAX theatres and some have also been partially shot in IMAX. IMAX is the most widely used system for special-venue film presentations. As of March 2011, there were 528 IMAX theatres in 46 countries

The next generation of Frostbite will debut with Battlefield 3. It will take full advantage of the DirectX 11 API and 64-bit processors, with no support for DirectX 9 (nor, therefore, Windows XP)It will also feature enhanced in-game destruction with Destruction 3.0, creating more refined physics than its predecessor. Additionally an important distinction on its naming is that Frostbite 2 is not called Frostbite 2.0